Pace University’s law school has an Environmental Litigation Clinic, similar to a host of other activist operations providing donor-supported faculty and swarms of young lawyer-trainees for various left-wing environmental causes. Foremost among those causes is the climate litigation campaign. Several years ago, using Illinois’s Freedom of Information Act, the Competitive Enterprise Institute (CEI) obtained from the office of then-Attorney General Lisa […]
Interesting MA OAG Correspondence
For reasons that are not readily apparent and may benefit from further inquiry, this email just popped up in Government Accountability & Oversight v. Office of the Attorney General of Massachusetts, and Andrea Campbell II (2084cv01858). This email was previously, implausibly withheld in full: This case involves MA OAG’s coordination with/recruitment by an outside activist […]
Reuters: New York City lawsuit against Exxon, BP, Shell over climate change dismissed
Story here. UPDATE: Opinion here. Money paragraph in summary: In very short, it appears that the plaintiffs’ switcheroo to claiming these purely local we swear, statutory consumer protection not at all energy policy or GHG reduction claims is a sword that carries two-edges. The one that cut them here is the statute of limitations. By […]